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Part A: Grammar (40 Marks) 1. Complete the following passage with suitable verbs from the list. Put them in the correct tenses. Use negatives where necessary. 15=5 Your silence (a)–– me to the quick. I hope, you (b)––– on well with your shidies. I am study in a government college in Dhaka now. Although I (c)–– of a poor family. I do (d) ––– to continue my studies. I want to study in a public university to get a post graduation degree. Today I (e)––– to inform you of my decision. 2. Fill in the gaps with prepositions.15=5 We should not go (a)––– the current. We have to get the habit (b)––– thinking (c)––– doing anything. This will lead us (d)––– succeed in life. Who (e)––– us will not recognize this truth? 3. Fill in the gaps with suitable article. Put cross (x) where no article is necessary. .510=5 People think of (a)–– poverty as (b)––– great evil and it seems to be (c)––– accepted belief that, if people had (d) ––– plenty of money. They would be happy and (e)––– useful and more out of life. As (f)––– rule there is more genuine satisfaction is life and more obtained from in (g)––– humble cottage of (h)––– poor men than in (i)–––– palaces of (j)––– rich. 4. Fill in the blanks with suitable linking words from the list. 15=5 Fortune has often been blamed for blindness (a)––– blindness and future are not (b)–––– blind as those (c)–––– blame their fate (d)––– do not try to overcome adversities. Neither good luck (e)––– bad luck has anything to do with the ultimate destiny of a man. 5. Rewrite the following in the reported speech. 5 “What kind of stories did Aesop tell?” asked Anwar Fables, replied Mrs. Amin. “Do you know that fables are?” “No.” replied Anwar. “Well,” continued Mrs. Amin. “Fables are stories with a message or a moral.” 6. Transform the following sentences as directed in the brackets. 15=5 (a) Saima is a student of Willes Little Flowers School (Compound). (b) It is as famous as any other school is Dhaka (Imperative). (c) The teachers of the school are very considerate to the students (Negative interrogative). (d) The students of the school are helped by the English teacher to write good speech (Active). (e) Since Saima is a student of willes little flowers school, she feels proud about it (Simple). 7. Add a tag question to the following sentences. 15=5 (a) Nobody did it, ––––? (b) Do cut it into two, –––? (c) She will have done the work, –––? (d) The burgers look good.–––? (e) The beast in him hurt us most. –––? 8. Complete the following incomplete sentences. 15=5 (a) She stares at me as if–––. (b) A man––– is a biologist. (c) ––– where he lives. (d) They walked fast lest–––. (e) Had I been there –––. Answers Part A: Grammar 1. Right form of verbs (a) cuts; (b) are getting; (c) came; (d) want; (e) an writing. 2. Appropriate prepositions (a) against (b) of (c) of (d) to; (e) among. 3. Use of articles (a) x (b) a; (c) an; (d) a (e) x (f) a (g) the (h) the (i) the (j) the. 4. Use of linking words. (a) but; (b) so; (c) who; (d) and; (e) nor. 5. Changing the form of speech Anwar asked Mrs. Amin what kind of stories Aesop had told. Mrs. Amin replied that they were fables. She then asked Anwar if he knew what fables were. Anwar replied in the negatve. Finally Mrs. Amin continued saying that fables were stories with a message or a moral. 6. Transformation of sentences. (a) Saima is a student and studies in Willes Little Flowers School. (b) It is more famous than any other school in Dhaka. (c) Aren’t the teachers of the school very considerate to the students? (d) The English Teacher helps the students of the school to write good speech. (e) Being a student of Willes Little Flowers school, Saima feels proud of it. 7. Tag questions (a) Nobody did it, did they? (b) Do cut it into two, won’t you? (c) She will have done the work, won’t she? (d) The burgers look good, don’t they? (e) The beast in him hurt us most, didn’t it? 8. Completing sentences. (a) She stares at me as if she knew me will. (b) A man who studies languages is a bilinguist. (c) I know the place where he lives. (d) They walked fast lest they should miss the bus. (e) Had I been there, I would have saved him from the danger.